CNN hits hard on Libya: The only conclusion is that the White House tried to cover something up

posted at 10:01 pm on October 1, 2012 by Allahpundit

You already knew that the White House had reason to believe that Benghazi was a bona fide terror attack within 24 hours of it happening, no matter what Susan Rice said four days later, but I want you to watch this for two reasons. One: After the post on media bias, let’s give credit where it’s due. CNN has followed this story, and on primetime shows like this one and Anderson Cooper’s too. Two: Per Eli Lake’s piece in Newsweek today, someone has started leaking preliminary intel assessments made by the CIA that pointed to a spontaneous attack. (I wrote about that here.) I think you’re going to hear more about that from the White House in the next days and weeks, e.g., “We were only telling you what the CIA told us.” Read Lake’s piece to see why that won’t wash, then watch this clip as CNN’s own foreign affairs correspondent reveals that her intel sources were pointing to a full-fledged attack on the consulate within the first 24 hours. Essentially, to believe that the White House had clean hands in this, you need to believe that the CIA is so inept that the media’s contacts in the intelligence community are more astute than the people advising the president. Nothing would surprise me at this point, but given O’s strong electoral incentives to downplay what happened, the cover-up theory seems more likely.

Exit question: Who made the decision to cherry-pick the intel in order to push the “spontaneous protest” theory? That’s the next blank in this story to be filled in.

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The biggest coverup is in Afcrapistan where the generals are covering up for Islam and their own incompetence, claiming that when what they call “Our Partners in Peace” murder American and other NATO troops it’s some kind of disgruntled Afghan “partner”with personally “issues” and some kind of work place violence rather than Muslims just doing what the Koran says and Mohammad said.

This is a totally overconfident White House. They have gotten away with so much, they thought they could push this through. Keep the pressure on these media thugs. They have known this for over two weeks…

I know you are here to get under peoples skin-you do the opposite for me. Your so pathetic I sit here laughing at you. To take the time you do at con sites says a lot. I show any a friend-they laugh at you as well.
Thanks- you only add to the entertaining stupid. I use pople like you as an example..thank you.

I do kind of wonder why the media has started acting like they’re interested in news all of a sudden. Are they hoping to gain some credibility before launching some bigus attack on Romney in a couple of weeks?

Exit question: Who made the decision to cherry-pick the intel in order to push the “spontaneous protest” theory? That’s the next blank in this story to be filled in.

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Like all White House decisions, this decision was made by Valerie Jarrett.

Will that “blank” ever be filled in? Doubtful, but also unnecessary as long as the “spontaneous protest” theory gets laid at the steps of the White House.

There is a lovely little civil war going on among the “elite”.

On one side, the SCOAMF and his handlers.

On the other, the Clintonistas.

If the Clintonistas win, the SCOAMF is a one term President and they can openly start working on 2016 on November 7th.

If the SCOAMF wins? Believe it or not, even the trolls, mobys and loons on here will look back as 2008 – 2012 as the pinnacle of the SCOAMF’s ascendancy.

Too many bad things are going to come home to roost (i.e. EU/euro collapse, U.S. debt interest rates ballooning, unfunded pension liabilities, ObamaTAX, etc, etc etc) in 2013 since we KNOW the SCOAMF will never FIX anything.

Oh, one other thing – If the SCOAMF were to win on November 6th, make sure you have your wealth close to you in cash … because the financial world will start to colapse from November 7th right on through to the end of the year.

I’m confused. We know they’re working for the Zero campaign, so what’s the angle here? Get it out there before the debate? Try to make it “old news” before the election? If CNN is reporting it, that means the White House asked them to. This is debate-campaign strategery. Guess we’ll find out Wednesday what it’s all about.

CNN is just paying Lip Service. They have to because it’s all pretty obvious at this point. They have to maintain some semblance of credibility. You see, we can’t say CNN is biased now. They won’t demagogue the thing, though, like they would if Bush was president. They’ll spend 15 minutes on it and then move on to their next outrageous outrage at Romney.

You already knew that the White House had reason to believe that Benghazi was a bona fide terror attack within 24 hours of it happening, no matter what Susan Rice said four days later, but I want you to watch this for two reasons.

Why do you keep exonerating Petraeus by your silence about his big roll in all this? He is the head of the CIA and so should have more expected of him than this Susan Rice know nothing. Is Petraeus untouchable like Mohammad?

It wasn’t/isn’t just Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice,and Baghdad Bob Jay Carney who perpetrated this Goebbels Level Big Lie. CIA head David “Holy Qur’an” Petraeus is also guilty and guilty as hell. In fact it was probably that lying b-astard’s idea.

The White House has held a series of secret meetings in recent months to examine the threat posed by al-Qaeda’s franchise in North Africa and consider for the first time whether to prepare for unilateral strikes, U.S. officials said.

The deliberations reflect concern that al-Qaeda’s African affiliate has become more dangerous since gaining control of large pockets of territory in Mali and acquiring weapons from post-revolution Libya.

The discussions predate the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. compounds in Libya
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but gained urgency after the assaults
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there were linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM.
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I’m confused. We know they’re working for the Zero campaign, so what’s the angle here? Get it out there before the debate? Try to make it “old news” before the election? If CNN is reporting it, that means the White House asked them to. This is debate-campaign strategery. Guess we’ll find out Wednesday what it’s all about.

It wasn’t/isn’t just Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice,and Baghdad Bob Jay Carney who perpetrated this Goebbels Level Big Lie. CIA head David “Holy Qur’an” Petraeus is also guilty and guilty as hell. In fact it was probably that lying b-astard’s idea.

I know you are here to get under peoples skin-you do the opposite for me. Your so pathetic I sit here laughing at you. To take the time you do at con sites says a lot. I show any a friend-they laugh at you as well.
Thanks- you only add to the entertaining stupid. I use pople like you as an example..thank you.

Maybe they’re starting to realize that being MSNBC-lite is not a ticket to better ratings. I think they’re trying to regain some credibility – and possibly some viewers – after about 5 years of kissing Barry’s butt.

It wasn’t/isn’t just Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice,and Baghdad Bob Jay Carney who perpetrated this Goebbels Level Big Lie. CIA head David “Holy Qur’an” Petraeus is also guilty and guilty as hell. In fact it was probably that lying b-astard’s idea.

VorDaj on October 1, 2012 at 10:18 PM

Yup. Petraeus has turned out to be a first class scumbag. Hope he enjoys the view under barack’s bus.

Attention!!! General Petraeus here. I condemn the action of the individual in the United States who made a video disrespecting the Great Prophet Mohammad. That action was hateful. It was intolerant, and it was extremely disrespectful. I condemn the actions of a small number of individuals who have been extremely disrespectful to the Holy Qur’an. Together with our Muslim Partners in Peace, we must secure and serve the people of the Muslim world.

I’m General David Petraeus, Commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force. And on behalf of all the members of ISAF, I want to extend very best wishes to you and your families as you celebrate the holy month of Ramazan.

Ramazan is, of course, a month of recommitment to faith, a month of celebration with family and friends, and a month of devotion and reflection.

My own reflection recently has reminded me of the enormous importance of the tasks that members of ISAF share with members of the Afghan National Security Forces – and, indeed, with all Afghan citizens – as we work together, shona ba shona, to achieve our common goal of a secure and peaceful Afghan nation. It goes without saying that it is a great privilege to work with our Afghan partners in striving to attain such an important objective.

“you need to believe that the CIA is so inept that the media’s contacts in the intelligence community are more astute than the people advising the president. ”

OR, that the president is so narcissistic that he instinctively hews to the possibility that shows him in the most favourable light, no matter how unlikely. Which in time (say, almost four years?) certainly would act to whittle down the ranks of heeded advisers until only the inept asskissers remained.

Romney/Ryan has to find a way to push this. Ryan was given the opportunity today to say Rice should resign and he declined.

Mark1971 on October 1, 2012 at 10:35 PM

Perhaps he knows that if he keeps his powder dry and lets the media keep digging, this might reach all the way to Hillary and even Obama. Why give them the chance to throw Susan Rice under the bus and say it was just a communciation screwup by her?

I know you are here to get under peoples skin-you do the opposite for me. Your so pathetic I sit here laughing at you. To take the time you do at con sites says a lot. I show any a friend-they laugh at you as well.

I suspect lester doesn’t know what a friend is. It’s doubtful he has any.

Perhaps he knows that if he keeps his powder dry and lets the media keep digging, this might reach all the way to Hillary and even Obama. Why give them the chance to throw Susan Rice under the bus and say it was just a communciation screwup by her?

rockmom on October 1, 2012 at 10:40 PM

If we had a media that we could trust to take it that far before the election I would agree with you.

Nope… That was one of the very first of the greatest inventions ever, it was invented right after men learned to use fire to cook meat… ;p

SWalker on October 1, 2012 at 10:42 PM

First came cooking meat with fire, then came beer, then came a need to pee somewhere where your little friend didn’t freeze to death while you were getting rid of all that beer you drank with your cooked meat… ;p

Hey trollboy, you ran away and never answered my questions from last night in the QOTD thread.

What is King Obama’s plan?

I will continue to wait.

JPeterman on October 1, 2012 at 10:30 PM

lester’s one of the most cowardly trolls here. He never rises to the challenge of answering questions about the America-hating thug he supports. He’s only here to throw drive-by talking-point bombs that are fed to him. He doesn’t and cannot think for himself.

lester’s one of the most cowardly trolls here. He never rises to the challenge of answering questions about the America-hating thug he supports. He’s only here to throw drive-by talking-point bombs that are fed to him. He doesn’t and cannot think for himself.

Right Mover on October 1, 2012 at 10:44 PM

Well I also put the challenge up to HotAirLib, he also ran away last night.

To know Libya and Syria and Operation Fast & Furious watch the “Lord of War” spoilers…

Pure speculation.
The ambassador was ether the Nicholas Cage’s uncle who supplied the weapons, the General at the end who supplied the money, Nick Cage himself as the real gun runner was killed or a combination of all three. It went bad when the deal fell through somewhere else and this was a set up from that time. When Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) brother is killed because he would not sell guns to be used on woman and children right after they left this is what happened to the Ambassador. Someone sold weapons to get rid of Gaddafi and they wanted more and when he was not going to and wanted the other ones back they deal to kill him happened.

Not even Brad Thor or Tom Clancy could write a book with all the facets of intrigue and plans that the administration has going. They spent 8 years planning on what they could do once they have the power, unlimited cash of the government and unlimited was to get what is needed. As they knew in 2001 after 9-11 and Iraq a republican would not win in 2008 no matter who they put in. This all has nothing to do with Obama as he is on the golf course when they are in the bunker planning.